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We have just launched a comprehensive fundraising campaign to ensure that our students and faculty have the resources they need to do their very best work in this century and beyond. We launched with a goal that is unprecedented among liberal arts colleges—$750 million.

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Maine’s Colby College Museum of Art has received a gift worth more than $100 million from longtime Colby benefactors Peter and Paula Lunder, including nearly 1,150 artworks and funds to establish the Lunder Institute for American Art. Read more

The Colby College Museum of Art may seem off the beaten path, three hours north of Boston, but a gift of 1,150 works, ranging from Vincent Van Gogh to Ai Weiwei, should help boost the Waterville, Maine, campus as a tourist destination. Read more

David A. Greene joins more than 200 college presidents in seeking protection for students who use the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative, which President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to cancel. Read more

Dear Colby Community, At our opening convocation this fall, I spoke of the political environment in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s and how the discontent of that period – a time of racial discord, insecurity about our country’s place in the world, widespread economic uncertainty, and distrust of government – was echoing […] Read more

Dear Colby Community, Earlier today, along with key partners, we announced the creation of 200 high-quality jobs in Waterville through the opening of a subsidiary of a Massachusetts-based IT consulting company. This is the result of many months of effort to attract Collaborative Consulting to Waterville as part of our partnership with the city to […] Read more